Gratton effect in the numerical Stroop task is distance dependent.
In the numerical Stroop task, two digits that vary in both numerical and physical size appear, and participants need to identify which digit has the larger numerical value. Typically, slower responses occur when numerical difference between the digits is small. This finding is known as the distance...
| Published in: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 5; pp. 1952 - 1964 |
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